An increase in the OS due to restricted shares I could live with since they would not be tradable for 1-2 years....it is the increase in float to above the known OS (at the time) that I don't like...and there is only one way for the float to increase!
Dilution!
So instead of seeing a reduction in the float of 1.7 Billion shares due to buy-backs the float increased to some unknow number "around 14 Billion"